RE: 1.3.1 cygwin release

[Suhaib Siddiqi <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>]

> On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 09:11:33AM +1000, Robert Collins wrote:
> >Sound to me like you've got multiple cygwin1.dll's on your 
> system. 1.3.1
> >is the same core dll as the Apr 14 snapshot that has worked 
> so well with
> >95 users:]
> >
> >Run cygcheck -s -v and report it here.
> 
> That probably won't work if someone is getting a multiple DLL error.
> Make sure that all running cygwin processes are stopped and 
> use Windows
> Find/Search to find other versions of cygwin1.dll.
> 
> Usually people stick cygwin1.dll in windows/system32 for some
> misguided reason.
> 
> I'm beginning to think that setup.exe should just delete any 
> cygwin1.dll's
> that it finds there.



Or how about setup.exe just delete all the DDls there if it finds
a cygwin1.dll there.  this might work better because next time
user will be scared to put a cygwin1.dll in system32 directory <grin>

Suhaib








> 
> cgf
> 
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Lawrence Piano" <lpiano@atomictangerine.com>
> >To: <cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com>
> >Cc: "Lawrence J Piano (E-mail)" <lpiano@atomictangerine.com>
> >Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2001 7:52 AM
> >Subject: 1.3.1 cygwin release
> >
> >
> >> When I installed the new 1.3.1 cygwin release today, I couldn't run
> >the
> >> xfree86 server since it complained that I was using the wrong
> >cygwin1.dll.
> >> This makes sense since it's new, so a) is there an "easy" 
> tweak or b)
> >can I
> >> recompile the xfree86 distribution (4.0.3) with the new 
> cygwin1.dll or
> >c)
> >> shall I wait until a new version of xfree86 comes out that's
> >compatible?
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >> Larry
> >>
> >>
> >>
> 
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